Adjustable eaves trough support



p 7, 1948. c. 'H. VAN WERT ADJUSTABLE EAVES TROUGH SUPPORT Filed Dec. 13, 1945 m km ' INVENTOR. LZaJZeQsEZa IYH ZIE BY JZZFt tgg Patented Sept. 7, 1948 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE This invention relates to improvements in hangers for building eaves troughs or gutters; and the invention has reference, more particularly, to an adjustable hanger for such purpose.

Eaves troughs or gutters must be supported from a building wall to extend along and below an edge of the building roof so as to receive water running off from the latter, and thereupon carry such water to a draining leader or leaders by which the water is conveyed to suitable drains, sewer connections or other convenient place of discharge. For efficient'service to such end, the eaves trough or gutter must be properly supported and inclined toward a leader at a predetermined pitch suitable to assure free and rapid flow of water along the trough or gutter. Eaves troughs or gutters are usually supported by a plurality of curved bracket or hanger arms which are secured in spaced relation along a building wall adjacently beneath the edge of a roof desired to be served thereby. Said hangers or bracket arms must be carefully positioned in relation one to another so as to properly support the trough or gutter at a desired angle of slope or drainage pitch. To accomplish this requires much time consuming measurement and labor, and even when great care is exercised, it not infrequently occurs that one or more of said bracket or hanger arms are improperly located, and have to be removed and reset.

Having the above stated conditions in view, it is an object of this invention to provide a novel construction of eaves trough hanger, the bracket or hanger arm of which may be easily and quickly vertically adjusted relative to a fixed supporting base by which it is carried and after the latter is afiixed to the building wall, whereby necessity for precise initial location of the supporting base is avoided, and so that a plurality of such pre-attached hangers may be quickly and easily relatively adjusted for the support of a trough or gutter at the required angle of slope or drainage pitch.

Another object of the invention is to provide a novel adjustable eaves trough hanger comprising a base adapted to be affixed to a building wall, a bracket or hanger arm slidably mounted on said base so as to be capable of vertical adjusting movement thereon, and means also mounted on said base for effecting such adjusting movement of the bracket or hanger arm; all whereby said bracket or hanger arm may be quickly and easily adjusted relative to and without necessity for disturbing associated 2 Claims. (Cl. 248-482) w from the former.

with suitable openings ll, preferably adjacent hangers, and without necessity for the removal of the trough or gutter supported thereby.

Other objects of this invention, not at this time more particularly enumerated, will be understood from the following detailed description of the same.

Illustrative embodiments of this invention are shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of an eaves trough hanger according to this invention as disposed in supporting relation to an eaves trough or gutter, the latter being shown in transverse section; Fi 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view of the same, taken on 'line 22 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 3-3 in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the base plate of the hanger.

Similar characters of reference are employed in the above described views, to indicate corresponding parts.

An illustrative embodiment of the invention as shown in the drawings, comprises a substantially flat base plate I0, which may be produced from either sheet or cast metal, but preferably Said base plate is provided to the respective corners thereof, through which may be passed fastening means, such as screws or the like 12, by means of which said base plate may be affixed to a building wall W adjacently beneath the eaves E of the building roof. Projecting from the outer face of said base plate ID are opposed laterally spaced apart and longitudinally extending angular guide or runway members l3 and i4. If the base plate is produced from sheet metal, said guide or runway members may be struck out from the body thereof, in which case it is preferable to interrupt their longitudinal extent to avoid undue weakening of the base plate body, and by so doing to leave a strengthening or reenforcing section l5 at the point of interruption (see Fig. 4).

The reference character It indicates the bracket arm of the hanger structure, the same being of curved conformation of such radius that its top edge portion will conform to the underside of an eaves trough T to be supported thereby. Unitary with the inner end of said bracket arm is perpendicular butt section II, which is of suitable cross-sectional shape and of substantial length. Unitary and substantially co-extensive with the rearward or exterior side of said butt section I1 are laterally and oppositely projecting slide wings it, which are adapted to be entered in and between the guide 3% or runway members l3 and I4, whereby to operatively assemble the butt section I! and bracket arm IS with the base plate l0, so as to be supported by and from the latter, and so as to be vertically movable thereon.

Provided in connection with the top end said butt section I! of the bracket arm, preferably as an integral part thereof, is a forwardly projecting keeper piece t9 having, at its outer end, a dependent retainer tongue 20 outwardly offset therefrom, and adapted to hook over the inner or rearward marginal edge portion 2| of an eaves trough T, when the latter is seated on the bracket arm 16, whereby to assist in retaining said trough against displacement from its seated and supported engagement with said bracket arm.

To further assure a stable seated and supported engagement of the eaves trough T with said bracket arm Hi, the latter is provided, at its outer free end with a perforate ear 22 upon which the trough wall is superposed, whereby a bolt and nut or other similar fastener means 23 may be passed through said trough wall and car 22, so as to firmly and securely hold the trough T against accidental displacement from the bracket arm 16.

Actuatable means is provided for producing Vertical adjusting movements of the hanger bracket arm l6 relative to the supporting base plate [9. For this purpose the base plate is provided at or adjacent to its lower end, with an outwardly projecting horizontal bearing member '24 having an internally screw-threaded openingor way 25, disposed below and in alignment with the axis of the butt section ll of the bracket arm l6. Threaded through said bearing member 24, to extend upwardly therefrom into engagement with the lower end of said bracket arm butt section I! is a jack screw 26. In order to retain alignment of said jack screw 26 with said butt section H, the latter is preferably provided in its lower extremity with an inverted, substantially conical seat 21, and the free end of said jack screw is provided with a substantially conical end portion 28 to engage in said seat 27.

It will be obvious that the supporting position of the bracket arm l6 relative to the positions of associated bracket arms may be easily and quickly adjusted by manipulating the jack screw 26, whereby to slide the bracket arm structure upwardly or downwardly, as may be required, to position the eaves trough or gutter T, carried thereby, at a desired predetermined slope pitch. After such adjustment has been made, the jack screw 26 may be fixed in adjusted position by tightening home a jamb nut 29 with which the same may be provided.

I am aware that some changes could be made in the above described eaves trough hanger means without departing from the scope of this invention as defined in the here following claims. It is therefore intended that all matter contained in the foregoing description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

I claim:

1. An eaves trough hanger comprising a base plate adapted to be afiixed to a building wall adjacently beneath the caves of the building roof, said base plate having a perpendicular slideway means along its front face, a trough supporting bracket arm having a rigid perpendicular butt section of enlarged cross section and substantial length, integral slide wings laterally extending from the rearward side of said butt section to slidably engage said slideway means of the base plate so as to dispose said butt section closely adjacent to the latter, a bearing member outwardly projecting from said base plate below said slide-way means thereof, said bearing member having an internally screwthreaded way aligned with the axis of said bracket arm, butt section, and an adjustable jack screw threaded through said way and adapted to engage the lower end of said butt section, whereby to exert a direct non-canting upward axial thrust upon said butt section and its slidable connection with said base plate.

2. An eaves trough hanger comprising a base plate adapted to be afiixed to a building wall adjacently beneath the caves of the building roof, said base plate having a perpendicular. slideway means along its front face, a trough supporting bracket arm having a rigid perpendicular butt section of enlarged cross section and substantial length, integral slide wings laterally extending from the rearward side of said butt section to slidably engage said slideway means of the base plate so as to dispose said butt section closely adjacent to the latter, a bearing member outwardly projecting from said base plate below said slideway means thereof, said bearing member having an internally screwthreaded way aligned with the .axisof said bracket arm butt section, an adjustable jack screw threaded through said way, said jack screw having a conical end portion, said butt section having a conical seat portion at its lower end for engagement by said conical end portion of the jack screw, said jack screw being adapted to exert a direct non-canting upward axial thrust upon said butt section and its slidable connection with said base plate, and a jamb nut threaded on said jack screw and movable there-- on to engage said bearing member.

CHARLES H. VAN WERT.

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UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 894,019 Clare July 21, 1908 1,571,277 K-nab Feb. 2, 1926 1,867,121 Walton July 12, 1932 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 2,955 Great Britain 1910 155,430 Great Britain Dec. 23, 1920 

